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A large number of the SEALs I've met, worked with, and had working for me were raging pricks. Looking at the video and having close ties to that mission, it is very clear we left Chapman alive on the battlefield. The audacity of these asshats to deny the plain as day evidence then denigrate a brave fucking hero who never quit and gave his last full measure...well...FUCK THEM.

Are they strictly talking retirees or separated pilots, too? This could be a really attractive option to dudes who get a line number and are within X years of 20 yrs TAFMS, and with it the AD pension. Lets say a dude separates and accrues 16 years TAFMS un the Guard. Maybe they get hired by an airline, finish probation (or not) and volunteer to go back on AD for 4 years to finish up. They’re stupid to limit the target audience to retirees only.

I don't think they have much of a choice. I'll bet Huggy a beer it is under 50 people, my family lives in Rancho Murietta near Sac. so I'm good for it when the day comes I'm visiting them...(if you stayed in the area)

T-2 is MAJCOM.

Excellent article by Naylor, thanks for posting. From senior levels to line operators, SEALs have behaved in a disgraceful manner regarding this incident. Truly shameful. No one would question their honor for making a tough call under fire and later finding out they’d been wrong. Shit happens, we get it. But they have blocked recognition for Chapman, and even gone back and changed their stories to shit on the guy because they couldn’t face facts: they left our man behind. Those few who have seen the AF product will tell you evidence for the USAF version is overwhelmingly convincing. Edited to add: for those unfamiliar with the author, he has written extensively on Anaconda and is respected by SOF leadership. Bottom line, credible dude, not a hack, worth reading the long article.

The same way a guy at AF/SE who had PCS orders to command a squadron was passed over. The dumpster fire continues...

Aside from all the financials... There's a reason people are battling right at year twenty. So far, the Air Force has been unable to overcome this reasons. Why would someone who got out due to the BS, started another career, and planted the family in their permanent town want to come back? Seriously... People can already run these numbers before they retire. Why would coming back on AD years later be any more appealing than just staying?

Idk about AETC but almost 100% of our waivers in AMC bypass the NAF and go directly to the AMC A staff. The only thing I’ve seen the NAF do is get rid of toxic Wing Kings

Yes, he did. Probably, but that is the price one pays for accepting command. If he, and you using your argument, are willing to take the kudos when things go right, largely because of your subordinates, then the reverse should be true as well. You are responsible for the actions, particularly the duty-related ones, for those under your command. Why did people under his supervision lose a box of grenades and why is a weapon missing? In North Dakota? Especially the gun. Those are accounted for so many times it's not even funny. Yet this one wasn't discovered until another goof caused an inventory. If his people didn't either respect, best case, or fear, worst case, him and do the things they are supposed to do, then that is on him. He did not lead/train his subordinates who, in turn, let this happen. Gutless AF leadership? Yep. Wheels are round as well. Throwing people under the bus? Said bus uses those round wheels. Nope.

I don’t mind if you bag on me...I understand. Lurking around here long enough, I get a tiny sense of what you guys think/feel about those of us not in the operations community. As much criticism as the 2014 RIF gets for its effect on the rated community, the MSG went through several cuts prior to that, going back to ‘05. Those cuts coincided to times when we had a ton of guys fragged out to support joint and other service missions in CENTCOM. Deploy often and long enough, and you don’t get SOS DL done or no exec jobs and you’re on the chopping block. You guys know the deal. So this negative selection of people out doing combat-related missions (traditional Air Force or not) creates the environment you see in non-OG communities today. I’ve said before there needs to be more inter-breeding and cross-pollination between Ops and Support. I love my joint job...I haven’t touched my primary area of expertise for almost 2 years and gained a whole new set of knowledge. I’ve gotten to do staff work that made its way up to NSC and POTUS (well, as a backup slide). Of course, since I made O-5 and am resurrected, they’re cutting it short to send me to...wait for it...HAF/A4. But, in the words of the warontherocks article...I’m just “happy to be here.”

They step to the Ground Control Station. Some squadrons have those indoors, some in shipping containers outdoors, some have a mix. The MCC/OPS SUP/TOP 3 does just what they would in any other flying squadron: verifies everyone is current, on the flight orders, ORM checks out, etc. The Lt I referenced got annihilated at a naming, passed out in a supply closet and experienced a catastrophic blowout. He was still wearing his flightsuit, which helped contain the damage ... somewhat.

AFMS published a memorandum yesterday, attached below. RELOOK Color Vision SGPS 23 May 2018.pdf

Twenty bucks is twenty bucks. I'm a sole breadwinner, man.

Truth in advertising: it's a satellite J3 office down in Norfolk, not the Pentagon. If you've seen some of my past posts, you'll see I'm also not an aviator. Some mission support career fields don't place as much value on JCS positions (weird). Shiny pennies go to HAF and work tribal programs. They'll send "second-tier" guys like me to stuff like this. The flyers that we've had down here are upwardly mobile (they have all made O-6 within a year of getting here). Of the mission support folks: I came here passed over, another guy got passed over while here, several guys come here and get ROAD, and a few others are very junior majors or senior captains with a line number, so it doesn't seem to matter much. I was fortunate to have a mission-minded aviator-type help me out, and I am forever grateful.

Seems Martin Baker is going to take it in the chin with the number of watches they’re on the hook for this year...

This is a great story of no shit heroism by some professional aviators. Just out of curiosity, have any Stan Eval dweebs gotten their panties in a wad about not following the checklist and punching the other guys out?

Guess that safety day last week didn’t take.

Seems like a good idea until you realize that all it will do is concentrate even more power upward. WG/CC will become the new GP/CC. The AF as a whole already doesn't trust SQ/CCs and sees them as just baby leaders on probation being closely babysat by GP/CCs who themselves are on O-6 probation. So now the O-6 probation job will be the WG/CC who babysits the SQ/CCs, and no real decision making power will exist at the base level anymore, it will just further fuel the "mother may I" bullshit where every little decision needs to be run through NAF or MAJCOM staff.

Awwww...that's a Westie in the middle! We have two of them now, and have had more in the past. Great dogs!

It used to be this way. Why does the AF have zero corporate history? This is nothing new.

It still looks like a tubby ugly version of an A-7.

I think it’s funny Bashi talks like a 12 year old playing Call is Duty whilst drunk.

How's life over there in the pilot group? Because at my wing, we have an Operations Group.

“What I want to fix your attention on is the vast, overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence – moral, cultural, social, or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how “democracy” (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient Dictatorships, and by the same methods? You remember how one of the Greek Dictators (they called them “tyrants” then) sent an envoy to another Dictator to ask his advice about the principles of government. The second Dictator led the envoy into a field of grain, and there he snicked off with his cane the top of every stalk that rose an inch or so above the general level. The moral was plain. Allow no preeminence among your subjects. Let no man live who is wiser or better or more famous or even handsomer than the mass.” - C.S. Lewis, Screwtape proposes a toast P.S. This is a thread about a silly uniform, but I’d say the moral shines through regardless.